Posts Tagged ‘goals’
How any type of manager can lead sales success
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sales — tracks feedback from sales managers and executives. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: What kind of sales manager are you? Problem-solving: 58.82% Developmental: 41.18% Regardless of what type of manager you are, the key to [...]
3 strategies to stop proscrastinating
Did you ever find yourself facing an important assignment, but somehow, you just couldn’t get yourself motivated to start working on it? Does time go by — days turning into weeks — yet you don’t seem to be any closer to getting the job done? You are hardly alone. We all know what it’s like [...]
Giving employees the feeling of choice when you’re still pulling the strings
This guest post is by Heidi Grant Halvorson, a motivational psychologist and author of “Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals.” She is also the author and co-editor of the academic book “The Psychology of Goals.” Follow her on Twitter at @hghalvorson. Most managers and leaders have the unenviable task of trying to get other [...]
Weekend Reading: What has inspired you to be a better leader?
As a business leader, you’re always on the lookout for ways to manage people better, identify new opportunities, drive down costs and increase revenues. We’ve found that some of the most interesting conversations between business leaders tend to start with the question “what are you reading?” To that end, we’d like to take the lead [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 3 ways managers cause stress Using Twitter as a productivity tool 10 steps to setting appropriate goals How to say no Who’s getting raises this year? Image credit, iStock
